To:V. A. SMOLYANINOV[1]

Published:Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeSmolyaninov:

Ivery muchfear that Lezhava’s optimism isgroundless.
Ask for the facts and check them. Do the checking
personally andtwice. Then have a direct-line talk with
Chutskayev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov. Otherwise I willnotbelieve that the matter has beensecured.

ComradeSmolyaninov:

Thisis a matter ofexceptionalimportance andurgency.
You are responsible for its execution. Press on with it in
every possible way. Krasin will be here on 13/VII. Place
before theC.L.D.before 13/VII.

[1]Thenotes to V. A. Smolyaninov were written in connection with
the fitting out of the Kara expedition to deliver goods to the
mouth of the Ob and the Yenisei in Siberia for commodity exchange
with a Swedish company. S. Y. Chutskayev, Deputy
Chairman of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee, in a telegram to
Lenin on July 8, 1921, expressed doubt concerning the
successful outcome of the Kara expedition, in view of L. B. Krasin’s
cancellation of the agreement with the Swedes and the purchases
of goods from the British.

OnJuly 14, 1921, on Lenin’s assignment, V. A. Smolyaninov,
together with L. B. Krasin, wrote a reply to Chutskayev
informing him of the measures taken to ensure the expedition,